i am blown away (no pun intended) by this amazing bubble building from dutch architects dus. deemed the worlds most temporary pavilion the interactive installation is in rotterdam and encourages a type of collective building taking at least two people to erect one cell of bubbles. 

i had the pleasure of checking out the ‘100 bedrooms’ opening last week with amazing shots from local australian photographer ‘ellen disaster’ - (margaret ellen burns). with such a diverse collection of subjects the project is a fantastic insight into ones most personal space. still on at kind of gallery until may 27 - i highly recommend getting down there!

berlin based studio shapes in play are changing the way we use infographics - turning data into objects these tactile info-visualisations are amazing!

if you’ve been paying a little bit of attention it might be common knowledge by now that i have a little bit of an obsession with materiality - and one of my focuses has been jelly. i was so so so happy when i came across the above project ‘noisy jelly’ by raphaël pluvinage and marianne cauvard. a fantastic processing experiment with a tactile representation of sound!

i am quite in love with this series of polariods from william miller. the series ‘ruined polaroids’ is a collection that shows the obscurely beautiful and unexpected results of failure.

having always had a level of intrigue for tessellations i was taken when i saw these stools from spanish industrial designer alvaro catalan de ocon.

pantone swatches have never looked so tasty! choose your colour in edible tart form from griottes.

love this campaign for international womens day from french studio emmanuelle.

TWO - think work observe is the brainchild of italian designers piero di biase and albert moreu. to put it frankly - their work rocks.

this alphabet topography from synoptic office is visually stunning! in this monotype typeface, the height of the letterforms is determined by how often a letter is used. this typeface maps the rhythmic ebb and flow of the english language.

from the look of last years onlab summer school’s outcome you’d be darn right crazy not to get amongst it in 2012. applications close march 30.
 

dutch designer ruben doornweerd has a great variety of work!

maddie the coonhound is quite possibly the most hilarious photographic project i’ve seen in a while. thank you theron humphrey!

instead of going to the beach … this one is NOT TO BE MISSED! application deadline may 16! the isia urbino / werkplaats typografie summer school is a chance to meet top notch mentors and like minded designers from all over the world.  get there.

the deadline for application to the basel school of design summer workshops is march 31. if you feel like a trip to switzerland this summer - i highly recommend this!